Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

And Hipparcos was kind of like a proto-Gaia. It was doing the same thing—it was trying to map the Milky Way—but it had a much smaller number of stars it was looking at. It couldn’t look ...

Despite having recently officially ended its science operations in January, Gaia, one of the most prolific star explorers ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

The team’s research not only sheds light on star formation dynamics but also tests Gaia’s ability to map distant stars, offering insights into the broader impact of massive stars on galactic ...

As astronomers peer through telescopes across the cosmos, dust clouds may distort the light from distant objects, altering observations.